SAN DIEGO, CA—June 22, 2023—The American Council on Exercise (ACE) has partnered with Wix, a leading website-building company, to launch the ACE+Wix Website Builder. The ACE+Wix Website Builder offers health and fitness professionals ready-to-use templates and a built-in suite of digital tools to create a website quickly and efficiently. It will also allow users to build their personal brand, reach new customers, increase their polished and professional online presence, connect with clients, and gain career and technical support.
“ACE demonstrates its commitment to the success of health and exercise professionals by providing unprecedented career support to help them thrive,” said Scott Goudeseune, ACE chief executive officer. “The ACE+Wix Website Builder reflects ACE’s continued focus on supporting health and fitness professionals from their first thought of getting started in the industry to when they decide to retire.”
With the ACE+Wix Website Builder, health and fitness professionals can access a variety of benefits when building a website. Digital tools accessible through the ACE+Wix Website Builder include:
- Creation of a customized domain name
- Capability to integrate video into web pages
- Streamlined client scheduling services
- Efficient online payment options for membership plans or packages
- Modernized professional/client communication through automated emails and texts
In addition to the ACE+Wix Website Builder and its digital tools, ACE Certified Professionals will have the added benefit of receiving marketing and branding guidance from the experts at Wix. This specialized information around website building and design will only be available on ACE Pro Compass.
“We often hear from our ACE Certified Professionals how frustrating and time consuming the administrative side of business can be,” said Lauren Shroyer, ACE vice president of product and innovation. “Because of this, ACE is proud to provide health and fitness professionals with this a tool to make building a website easier and faster allowing them to do what they really enjoy—working with clients.”
This new website building tool adds to ACE’s expanding suite of career support tools and resources to help exercise professionals and health coaches embark on lifelong learning and charter personalized career paths.
About American Council on Exercise
Since 1985, the American Council on Exercise (ACE) has been the leading non-profit education and certification provider for health coaches and exercise professionals in the United States and around the world.
With more than 90,000 highly respected certified health coaches and exercise professionals, ACE Certified Professionals are on the ground daily helping people move, stay active and make lasting lifestyle behavior changes to build healthier communities.
Headquartered in San Diego, ACE collaborates with public health partners to educate people of all backgrounds about the importance of physical activity and other healthy lifestyle behaviors; advocates for public policies to increase physical activity opportunities; and supports scientific research that investigates the efficacy of behavior-change interventions and the effectiveness of exercise practices and trends.
For more information visit acefitness.org/about-ace. AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EXERCISE, ACE and ACE logos are Registered Trademarks of the American Council on Exercise.